“I believe 45% of the homes here in Treme are AirBnBs or Short Term Houses," she said. “That’s a business, but technically that’s a residence. So now we’re comparing their property taxes to my property taxes.”

Done every four years, property assessments can raise, lower or maintain the value of a home, which changes the tax you pay on it.

“Square footage of living area, type of construction and condition," said Orleans Parish Assessor, Erroll Williams said. "We go and look at just about every property in the city to determine what the condition is and they grade it based upon good, fair, poor.”

The neighborhood is also looked at, which means rentals can have an impact. However, it gets complicated.

“Every other state, apartment complexes are treated as commercial property which would be because they’re renting it out," Williams said. "In Louisiana it’s treated as residential property. So, if I treated Short Term Rentals as commercial portion, I would have to know from the city what portion of the house they’re leasing out. And when the city grants these permits, they're not necessarily giving us the square footage that's allocated to that.”